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2017 / The Open! COOP Academy Publishing Class 2016–2017 has been investigating the state of the mind and brain under the conditions of cognitive capitalism. The (Against) Neuralgia Lexicon is to be found ON LINE at Open!

Open!COOP Academy Publishing Class 2016–2017 has been investigating the state of the mind and brain under the conditions of cognitive capitalism. We focused on current notions of the brain in our global capitalist societies and questioned in how far the brain can be ideologically infiltrated. From the assumption that culture and brain form complex systems of influence, control and resistance, and that language, memory and imagination are more and more performed by machines and automated algorithmic procedures, we looked at some of the implications of ‘cognitive automation’ for our subjectivity, identity and free will. We explored how neuro-scientific conceptions of the brain are appropriated by cognitive capitalism and charted possibilities to subvert the instrumentalization of our brains. This lexicon is one of the results of the project and a collaborative work by the Open!COOP Academy participants.